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Z36.3 RIVER-GOD EUROTAS & LACEDAEMONIA

River-God Eurotas & Lacedaemonia | Greco-Roman mosaic
DETAILS
Museum Collection Hatay Archaeology Museum, Antakya
Catalogue No. Antakya 826
Type Mosaic
Context Antioch
Date C4th A.D.
Period Late Roman

DESCRIPTION

This mosaic portrait depicts the Spartan river-god Eurotas and his wife Lacedaemonia. The god wears a grey-blue robe and is crowned with a wreath of reeds. Lacedaemonia, the eponymous goddess of the land of the Spartans, wears an earthen-red robe and a cloak of gold--probably symbolising the earth and fields of ripened grain.

ARTICLES

Eurotas